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Not being facetious here - what country do you live in that you think the government can't/won't interfere with your code?

by teej 11y ago

copperx 11y ago
Mexico.
brobinson 11y ago
Maybe China? There's a bit of Chinese in the author's other repos: https://github.com/clowwindy?tab=repositories https://github.com/clowwindy?tab=repositories
- userbinator 11y ago
  From the fact that there's lots of other stuff related to networking/tunneling, and the username has some "Chinese characteristics" to it, I also think it's China.
- alexchen 11y ago
  Yes it's china, because chinese government fears that the citizens who lived in china know about the truth of government's corruption.
  - ommunist 11y ago
    Dear Alex, although this may sound like a revelation, but governments do not fear. They are fictitious entities. Non-humans. One may think about them as a software.
    - alexchen 11y ago
      Dear ommunist, I think you are right, governments like "Matrix" which control every childprocess.
      - ommunist 11y ago
        No, dear. They are just putting childprocesses into existence. If there is no state, there are no citizens.
  - Qantourisc 11y ago
    Knowing about corruption, and being able to get away with it are 2 separate things I think. If you don't abuse people human rights) and give them a good life; you can get away with a lot of corruption I presume.
escape_goat 11y ago
Perhaps I am misunderstanding your use of English, because it is difficult to see how this is not a facetious question. There are relatively few countries in which the government both could and would interfere with someone's publication of code, and I think only in China is there both widespread computer use and internet access, on the one hand, and state security actors (the civil police, actually) who have the sophistication and funding to intervene with specific projects such as this one. Did you mean to ask what country he was in?
- TrevorJ 11y ago
  I think there are more than a few countries where this sort of thing could easily happen. Tech talks get canceled at the behest of the powers that be with some regularity, I don't think requests to take down source code would be out of the question. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/07/24/why-was-the-black-hat-talk-on-tor-de-anonymization-mysteriously-canceled https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/07/2... http://www.csoonline.com/article/2947377/network-security/privacy-talk-at-def-con-canceled-under-questionable-circumstances.html http://www.csoonline.com/article/2947377/network-security/pr...
  - escape_goat 11y ago
    You think that, but your links are to two cancelled presentations at conferences, neither of which has any clear connection with the 'powers that be', unless you consider the SEI and Carnegie Mellon University to be the 'powers that be'. Both those conferences occur in a single country, one which was not even able, under its own laws, to effectively suppress the distribution of cryptographic code when it was legally considered to be militarizable as a weapon.
    - Nemcue 11y ago
      Do you think you're allowed to talk about the government suppressing you? And the point isn't that they weren't able to suppress crypto code; it's that they tried.
- 11y ago

Not being facetious here - what country do you live in that you think the government can't/won't interfere with your code?

by teej 11y ago

Not being facetious here - what country do you live in that you think the government can't/won't interfere with your code?

copperx 11y ago

Mexico.

brobinson 11y ago

Maybe China? There's a bit of Chinese in the author's other repos: https://github.com/clowwindy?tab=repositories https://github.com/clowwindy?tab=repositories

userbinator 11y ago
From the fact that there's lots of other stuff related to networking/tunneling, and the username has some "Chinese characteristics" to it, I also think it's China.
alexchen 11y ago
Yes it's china, because chinese government fears that the citizens who lived in china know about the truth of government's corruption.
- ommunist 11y ago
  Dear Alex, although this may sound like a revelation, but governments do not fear. They are fictitious entities. Non-humans. One may think about them as a software.
  - alexchen 11y ago
    Dear ommunist, I think you are right, governments like "Matrix" which control every childprocess.
    - ommunist 11y ago
      No, dear. They are just putting childprocesses into existence. If there is no state, there are no citizens.
- Qantourisc 11y ago
  Knowing about corruption, and being able to get away with it are 2 separate things I think. If you don't abuse people human rights) and give them a good life; you can get away with a lot of corruption I presume.

escape_goat 11y ago

Perhaps I am misunderstanding your use of English, because it is difficult to see how this is not a facetious question. There are relatively few countries in which the government both could and would interfere with someone's publication of code, and I think only in China is there both widespread computer use and internet access, on the one hand, and state security actors (the civil police, actually) who have the sophistication and funding to intervene with specific projects such as this one. Did you mean to ask what country he was in?

TrevorJ 11y ago
I think there are more than a few countries where this sort of thing could easily happen. Tech talks get canceled at the behest of the powers that be with some regularity, I don't think requests to take down source code would be out of the question. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/07/24/why-was-the-black-hat-talk-on-tor-de-anonymization-mysteriously-canceled https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-switch/wp/2014/07/2... http://www.csoonline.com/article/2947377/network-security/privacy-talk-at-def-con-canceled-under-questionable-circumstances.html http://www.csoonline.com/article/2947377/network-security/pr...
- escape_goat 11y ago
  You think that, but your links are to two cancelled presentations at conferences, neither of which has any clear connection with the 'powers that be', unless you consider the SEI and Carnegie Mellon University to be the 'powers that be'. Both those conferences occur in a single country, one which was not even able, under its own laws, to effectively suppress the distribution of cryptographic code when it was legally considered to be militarizable as a weapon.
  - Nemcue 11y ago
    Do you think you're allowed to talk about the government suppressing you? And the point isn't that they weren't able to suppress crypto code; it's that they tried.
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